The enlightenment is not only a great conquest, a glorious victory for Himself but also a wonderful enlightenment for all human beings.

More than 25 centuries ago, at Bodhidharma (India), Bodhidharma Siddhartha after six years of ascetic practice and 49 days and nights sat quietly under the Bodhi tree to enter the truth, To attain the ultimate status of becoming the Buddha-ca-ni-ni. The fact that the Buddha attained enlightenment was of great significance to Buddhism: the founder of the Shakyamuni Buddha was officially introduced to lead the sentient beings towards the path. The commemoration of the Buddha's enlightenment is to express gratitude to the guru who has enlightened the path of enlightenment, to deepen this journey in the course of human life. Understanding the meaning of Buddha attainment is a prerequisite for following the vows of the ten Buddhas.

Prince Siddhartha was of the patriarchal clan, the Shakyamuni family, the son of King Suddhodana and Maya. As an adult, Prince Siddhartha managed to escape the four walls of the emerald throne to feel the reality of contemporary life and the common suffering of birth, old age, sickness and death that people suffered. .

Returning to Capernaum, though day and night beside his most elegant and sweet wife, surrounded by melodious music and the delicious feast of the party with the entourage of representatives of the people. Live, servitude; Prince still can not forget the human sorrow and the cycle of life. The charms of ordinary sexuality do not restrain a noble soul seeking to reach out to something more meaningful, higher, leading to true happiness and escape for all species. He asked the priests for permission to leave the city, leaving the religion. King Sri Soudhothana was surprised to find out what his children lacked and what they were looking for? He responded that he was looking for a way out of suffering, old age, sickness, death and long lasting happiness for sentient beings. Sister does not accept this petition. Finally to 29 years old,

Coping with the ideal of saving sentient beings, Cu Dam was disappointed with the ultimate purpose of the most famous masters of the day, Alara Kalama, Uddaka Ramaputta after he was recognized by the masters as " Has attained the highest level of faith, energy, meditation, wisdom and peace that only they and he have ever experienced, since in the end if satisfied and stopped here both they and Him Then also rolled in the path of cyclic existence. So then, he decides to commit himself on a journey without premonition, to find mysterious truth.

According to the popular belief of the time, the renunciant followers need to practice asceticism to attain high profundity. Gautama practitioners experienced many of the great ascetic practices described in the Mahasacca Sutta such as grinding teeth, tongue sticking, focusing on cutting off thoughts, holding the breath, fasting, and suffering. The painful affair is where the body is. Prince Siddhartha's robust, charismatic figure, once embodying the pride of the fortress of Calvary, after six years of asceticism, It's like a fire coming out.

Recognizing that the goal was not achieved but death was near so he decided to change the method of cultivation, maintaining the body to continue the journey. He received the yellow bowl of milk with the honey offered by Sujata, daughter of Nadaca, wife of Senator Senan to restore strength to the decisive stage. Five brothers Tran Thuy As he thought he had gone back to his departure to go to the Deer Park tu tu separate. Not alone, a balloon, he came to bathe the Ni-Liên-Boat, drop gold bowl into the river to confirm the volunteer, then receive the grass bunch of auspicious donated by an elderly farmer river, offering Gaya, where the base of the Tatra tree stretches grass and meditates on its own:

"If I sit here without finding the mysterious paths, I can not find the myth of the cosmic universe, despite the crushed, broken bone, I will not leave this place."

After 49 days of meditation, uninterrupted observation, on the last night of the starlit day, he won all the vassals, representing the ignorant classes of consciousness from the beginning, , The Three Senses and the Buddha with the title of Shakyamuni. He was 35 years old.

Studying the history of the Buddha, we see that he is both a real person, a historical figure and a symbolic human being. Where He always contains living truths, high depths. Buddhist Studies, Buddhist Approaches to Religion, Criticism and Religion from the German Master. The most singular, the most dynamic, the most, the utterance of the Buddha are all valuable lessons, practical for life. The most important event in the life of the Buddha, the Buddha attained the course, certainly left to the students of meaning meaning, incredibly untouchable.

Great conquest

First of all, Buddhadharma means to Himself a complete success. Having spent countless days worrying about eating and sleeping, six years of asceticism, elaborately filtering the truths of the deceased, daring to sacrifice the life and everything in life to seek new paths. Feel the glorious value of the glorious history of His Holiness at the throne of Great Enlightenment. A soothing joy permeates him so that he goes through the first week after enlightenment to experience the spiritual happiness of liberation and formally announces the cycle of birth and death: Through many lifetimes in the cycle of reincarnation, Tathagata wandering away forever, as Lai goes looking for forever without meeting, like Lai to find the builder of this house. The house builder, Tathagata found you. From here you no longer build homes for Tathagata anymore. All the sides of the house are broken, and your thunderbolt is also destroyed. Tathagata has attained the fruit of immortality and Tathagata has eradicated all craving. "

Enlightenment for all mankind

The enlightenment is not only a great conquest, a glorious victory for Himself but also a wonderful enlightenment for all human beings. The cure for the life of sentient beings is drowned in sorrow and darkness, as His Holiness remarked to Pavel: "It is because of darkness that we seek the light." During the remaining 49 years of his life, he enlightened the Sangha throughout the world and clearly displayed: "If the world does not suffer the darkness, the Buddha has not appeared in the world." He was born "For the well-being of the majority, for the happiness of the majority, for the love of life, for the sake of the welfare and well-being of the gods and men."

Confession of his heart with a lame lame crippled sheep when he carried it in time to meet the mother sheep to sacrifice sacrifice made by King Qin grandmother in the way he tripled feet The reason reflects a great love, great aspiration and great wisdom, the way only expressed in the holy man: "Although you go far, I will also support my mother to follow. To find the remedy to save all sentient beings, at least, I also save myself from suffering, because it is more like sitting on the mountain like the other practitioners to torment the body. And to seek the help of the gods of helplessness. " He advised the king not to kill animals to sacrifice. His Way is a Way of Life, Way of Love, His Vow is to save all sentient beings from suffering.

The Buddhist Upali - barber and six princes of the Shakyamuni

The fact that the Buddha attained enlightenment is even more meaningful if we view it right in the heart of society at the time of the Buddha. This period brought too many thinkers, nearly a hundred different theological and philosophical sects. The society is extremely complex: the human spirit is very dark, the disturbance of family order, society, and religion has been fiercely inward and outwardly disturbed . The person was then the victim of the scriptures and the Tao. The situation is tragic for women, for the lower classes of labor exploitation and discrimination, war and domination are frequent. In the midst of that stalemate, the Buddha appears as a bright morning sun, dispelling the shadows of the dense darkness covering his life.

Looking back on the journey that has passed, the more we realize the value of self-effort and practice in Buddhism. His enlightenment is the natural result of self-actualization, not without the shadow of sympathy with the god or salvation. The image of Thieves in his six years of existence is a deep impression that reminds us of progress on the road cleared by flatness:

"If there is no cold frost, no
apricot blossom tomorrow!"

The return of pure mental self

Throughout his life, he has repeatedly reminded us through the scriptures, "Do it yourself, the Tathagata is only a guru," or "Make your own island, Make a refuge for yourself "and" Please set the torch on yourself. " Buddhism attaches great importance to the realization that hot and cold water is used in self-knowledge, not in abstract, cliché, futile or fanciful and praying to protect from the supremacy of supernatural powers. Every Buddhist must be a meditator, a quiet soldier on the silent battlefield for the sins of ignorance that are ourselves the most dangerous enemies and "The most glorious victory is self-defeating. my soul."

A lesson that the Buddha nearly paid the price of his own life received and he taught very impressively at the beginning of the Dhammapada for the five kings of heaven, He was a companion of his companions, sharing with him atop Mount Snow, "There are two absolutes that the seeker of the truth should not follow. What are these two paths? Not according to the two paths, the seekers of the truth keep the Middle Path, the way To wisdom, to knowledge, to consciousness, Nirvana ... It is the noble path of the Noble Eightfold Path ... ". That is the way of the world, the dhyana, the wisdom and the sixth sense. As a strings are not too slack or too tight will emit melodious sound, miraculous, the practice should avoid the two extremes: enjoyment, enjoyment, depravity with physical and physical force Law of natural development, attain instant results. Buddhists have to feel peace, liberation, sublimation in every step, every breath of everyday life. Normal vision center.

Most importantly, we have to realize that justification is a return. In fact, the Buddha did not reach a high throne, or grasp a special object as his own mark, which is the manifestation of the self-shining example after the dust of ignorance has dissipated. . Later, he taught all sentient beings have: Buddha nature, Nirvana self, The essence of magic, Truth as true nature, Hybrid nature, Like organics ... We are forever sad death because We are like the same people carrying the pearl in the cross without knowing to wander, "dusty life" throughout the galaxy. That is also the meaning that he taught in the Fourth Book of the Twelve Sutras: "Infants of ignorance, unworthy human beings, unrepresented children." If any of us feel abnormal,

Buddha equality in every being

In the history of humanity, we have never seen anyone who has promoted the spirit of equality like him. He was agonized and shocked when he saw the shallow sweat on the plow and life was filled with the death of another creature on the day of the fall. He was amazed to see the suffering of human life outside the city and stop the car to ask Naaman before the scene that everyone is normal, obvious in life: What is it? Who? Is not that person? Am I the same? Perhaps if everyone was comfortable enough to be happy like Prince Siddhartha, he did not hesitate to look for a way out. His loving gestures, his caring for small creatures such as pigeons are archery, the sheep being sacrificed for sacrifice are lessons of non-killing,

Above all, he identified the position of a teacher with the disciples in the most important teaching he ever left: "I am the Buddha, you are the Buddha will be." The Lotus Sutra, Contemporary and Contemptuous Bodhisattva continue to symbolize this teaching. The inspiration for that truth must be the image of the various high lotuses, rising in the lake but not muddy in the mind of the Buddha, just like the Buddha-nature available in every being that we are today. Seeing the lotus pond commemorates the right side of the Bodhisattva Dharma, then He decides to sermon supreme mysterious beings to beings. The door to liberation has opened up to all sentient beings. The equality of Buddhahood is an important basis for the subsequent widespread acceptance of all classes of society: teenagers, murderers, women, women, Royal family ... into the congregation. How great is it that when we see that today's Indian society is class-conscious, from that prehistoric time, the Buddha has called for the elimination of the class: "Love is fiber There is no human being brought from the womb in the neck or the hymn of the hymn on the forehead. " The Buddha demanded human rights, uphold the dignity of all people. The fact that he had stripped the noble robes of a prince to put on his heels, carried the alms bowl in the same alley, the alley of life was a great harmony, escaped the great corpse . He was the decisive factor in correcting King Sri Soudhoth's contemptuous prejudice, representing the highest class of his time, For those who go begging. It is all because of the greedy mind, the desire to exploit and promote one's self, which creates a separate barrier in the relationship between man and man. People should live in equality, harmony, mutual assistance to happiness and liberation.

The enlightened Buddha is the most accurate proof of the truth: "Nibbana on earth" or "Bodhi, or Nibbana." Everyone has to wait for another life to attain supreme attainment and stop the search for the infinite to a distant, heavenly, heavenly Nirvana. Nirvana lotus blossom hatched right in the muddy world muddy, dirty. Buddha was born in the heart of suffering and left beings are without Buddha. The same way, but enchanted beings, enlightenment is the Buddha. With the realm, this world is full of macabre, evil five kings but with this holy man is Bao, is solemn Buddhist statue, that is: mental net, Buddhist net. Obsessive-compulsive beings should be "Abbot," creating more karma, evil; Contributes to the world of suffering, darkness but the enlightened ones "

Each person is responsible for his own happiness and suffering

Enlightenment Buddha is the event to promote human values. Buddha in the right life, the Buddha is enlightened; This shows that human beings have the optimal position to become Buddhas such as the Huayen Sutra teachings: "People are victorious, vitality necessarily good people try." Being human is very precious, difficult. While many other religions teach people to be godly, to shed their lives, the Buddha has given back the true value of human life. He is a superman over all the gods that humans know but he also has a very human heart. He took people to work to solve all the problems of the deadlock of the time, both in the world, mental and super-world. Man is personally responsible for his own and his own happiness, not the problem of blasphemy from a supreme being. The Buddha brought faith, wisdom and liberation to man. The image of the "Sons" in the Lotus Sutra is that the Buddha reminds people not to lose oneself, to find and return to the true self in himself. Do not wait to pray elsewhere.

Respect the living environment

An age-related issue that humanity is concerned about: the protection of the environment. The Buddha was a volunteer in this area. He was born in a tree branch in the Lumbini garden, left home on Hanh Lam, attached to the Ni-boat and meditated on grass, under the Bodhi tree Tomorrow has just sprouted. He then moved the wheel in the Deer Park, retreats for many years in the village, mountain forests and in the end Mr Thi Town on the remote wilderness. He spread love to all species. Perhaps due to the great influence of the spirit of respect for life in Him, the relations between people and things in India are very friendly and the land of the Buddha has many native forests and the number of plants and animals are plentiful. He lived in harmony with nature, In favor of the beauty of natural nature without human hands distorting, deformed, distorted. Unfortunately, a large number of human beings have not studied and practiced fully according to his teaching, so our living environment is getting worse and worse, leading to the alarming degree of destruction. wave.

Comprehensive education foundation

The Buddha also has a fundamental meaning for the establishment of a comprehensive education. Education must be based on the basis of transformation, spiritual direction, the human mind. Mind is the decisive leader of all human actions. Man is the subject of society. So a true education must begin with the improvement of the mind. How the social revolution has failed because it is the revolutionaries who want to conquer nature, conquer society while not mastering their mind. The rich, precious and practical experience of control and submission, mind orientation and mental clarity throughout the 35 years of reflection and six years of meditation of the Buddha, the doctrine of 49 years The sermon is aimed at scouting effectively for all people to cultivate the eighty-four thousand or infinite defilements that arise from the human mind. Renewing thinking is the decisive factor for any renewal. We should also be cautious, vigilant in every disguise, lurking and sophistry of evil and evil. Buddhism with the spirit of selflessness, altruism, the four immeasurable minds, the clasics of palladium will provide positive substance for the cause of education and bring human society towards Truthfulness-Compassion and manifest Nirvana -standard table

Today, human civilization has reached its peak, how many scientists have been granted the patents and won the honor but try to human society we have really happy happy yet? Reading a newspaper, listening to a newscast on the radio, glancing at the television screen, we are filled with social evils and the painful suffering that humanity is suffering: wars between nations , Religious discrimination, ethnicity, illness, natural disasters, arid habitats are gradually wiping out, smuggling, corruption, bureaucracy, exploitation, social evils, How many people are deadlocked suicide ... So how inventions, advances in science and technology has helped humanity how much? What percentage of people on this planet are happy? Main greed, selfishness, Anger and delusion of human beings are destroying human beings. There are some new civilizations that have produced people who want to take over the world in their hearts, to ruthlessly stomp on the hurt of others and despite all the serious consequences that will happen to them. This gender. Humans are increasingly subsumed into the slavery of sexuality and live an arid, empty, monotonous, soulful life. The industrial age has swirled people in such a rush that there are people who do not have a moment to stop thinking before they act. Humans are increasingly subsumed into the slavery of sexuality and live an arid, empty, monotonous, soulful life. The industrial age has swirled people in such a rush to the point that there are people who do not have a moment to stop thinking before they act. Humans are increasingly subsumed into the slavery of sexuality and live an arid, empty, monotonous, soulful life. The industrial age has swirled people in such a rush to the point that there are people who do not have a moment to stop thinking before they act.

The irony is that while civilization, science and technology are highly developed to the blue cloud, human spiritual culture sinks deep into the mud. Mankind is in the world of choice: change to exist or default to accept perdition. Then, on the day of the Buddha's enlightenment, mankind must stop for a moment to remember him, to learn from his devotion to find a practical solution to the crisis of the times. The Buddha appears because of human suffering. His light of truth transcends time and space of light through the everlasting universe because he is always interested in the eternal problem of man. Ignorance and craving are the most harmful enemies of humankind.

Over the past 25 centuries, the world has undergone many changes. We are inheriting the inheritance of the Benefactor. Recalling the hard labor He has found the golden Light of all sorts, His merits are immeasurable, boundless, His virtue is noble, New year bloom once. We do not have to commemorate the Buddha in one day, one hour is enough to move, bring that light into life, into every second, every moment, every moment, every breath of his life to Benefit for all beings. END=NAM MO CAKYA MOUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.12/6/2017.